Mmzornes's List: DGL Vocabulary

• Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet.

• • The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information.  ¹ 
   
  •  The ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers.  ² 
   
  •  A person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment... Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media, to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments.  ³

• Whether you are new to computing or have some experience, Digital Literacy will help you develop a fundamental understanding of computers. The courses help you learn the essential skills to begin computing with confidence, be more productive at home and at work, stay safe online, use technology to complement your lifestyle, and consider careers where you can put your skills to work.

• Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.

• Digital citizenship is usually defined as the "norms of behavior with regard to technology use." It encompasses digital literacy, ethics, etiquette, online safety, norms, rights, culture and more.

• A digital citizen is one who knows what is right and wrong, exhibits intelligent technology behavior, and makes good choices when using technology.

• Digital Citizenship is the concept of educating students (and all technology users) about how to use technology appropriately. This involves using technology effectively and not misusing it to disadvantage others. Digital Citizenship consists of numerous themes including appropriate online etiquette, literacy in how digital technology works and how to use it, an understanding of ethics and the law as it relates to technology, knowing how to stay safe online, and advice on health issues relating to the use of technology.

• Digital identity is all the online information and data specifically about an individual.

• Digital identity is made up of elements that fall into four categories (source: Lionel Maurel / Fadhila Brahimi):

   
   
  • Authentication elements: identification number, IP address, email address, user name, password, last name, first name, alias, etc.
   
  • Data: personal, administrative, banking, occupational, social data, etc.
   
  • Identifiers: photograph, avatar, logo, image, etc.
   
  • Digital traces: contributions to blogs and other content management systems, links, etc.

• Digital identity refers to the ways and means that identity is created and perceived in the digital world, i.e., online. It includes unique descriptive data, as well as information about relationships. That is, it defines a thing both in and of itself and in relationship to other things. Both a person and a company can have a digital identity and while a person always has a concrete identity in the world, businesses may have a storefront identity and establish a digital presence as they establish an online presence in order to do business online. Alternatively, the digital identity may be the one and only identity. Barnes & Noble® is an example of the first type of business; Amazon® is an example of the second.
• Digital identity is also important in terms of online credentials. There are many websites for which an individual creates a username and password and — upon returning to that site at a later date — one confirms one’s identity by re-entering them.
• For an individual, online identity consists of one’s self-expression not only through what is said in tweets, posts, emails, blogs, websites, and other online interchanges, but also through representation of oneself with account names, screen names, avatars, and display names, and with artwork, web design, and photographs that one displays or shares on one’s own site or on sharing sites. One’s friends, favorites, followers, and those one chooses to follow — as well as those one chooses to retweet, share, or like — all contribute to the digital identity as well, as does the number of friends or followers one can lay claim to.

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• Digital identities are who we say we are, when weare online. They can be a subtype of a public persona, an extension of our ‘true’selves, or they can be completely fabricated and fantastical, to function as a mask to hide the identity of an Internet user from rest of the world.
• The phenomenon of the digital identity has been referred to by many differ-ent terms including: online identity, online personality, digiSelf, virtual identity,avatar and online persona. These terms all refer roughly to the same idea, of anindividual using a computer and creating a new identity for themselves on theInternet. It is important to clarify that the online identity is not a computer userin the traditional sense of man operating a machine, nor does it refer to any sig-ni

   

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• Digital security is the protection of your digital identity - the network or Internet equivalent of your physical identity. Digital security includes the tools you use to secure your identity, assets and technology in the online and mobile world.
• These tools include anti-virus software, Web services, biometrics and secure personal devices you carry with you every day. Secure personal devices such as a smart card-based USB token, the SIM card in your cell phone, the secure chip in your contactless payment card or e-passport are digital security devices because they give you the freedom to communicate, travel, shop, bank and work using your digital identity in a way that is convenient, enjoyable and secure.

• Digital Security (self-protection):   electronic precautions to guarantee safety.
   In any society, there are individuals who steal, deface, or disrupt other people. The same is true for the digital community. It is not enough to trust other members in the community for our own safety. In our own homes, we put locks on our doors and fire alarms in our houses to provide some level of protection. The same must be true for the digital security. We need to have virus protection, backups of data, and surge control of our equipment. As responsible citizens, we must protect our information from outside forces that might cause disruption or harm.

• Digital security involves protecting a computer from intrusion by an unauthorized user. It also involves applying safe computing practices such as using secure transaction sites and protecting personal information in social networks.

• A firewall is a digital security system that controls incoming and outgoing network connections by determining what data packets will be allowed through.

   

  Firewalls are used to protect library computers from potential outside threats. They may also be used to prevent users from certain online activities that may be illegal or harm the system.

• Critical thinking is that mode of thinking — about any subject, content, or problem — in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking.

• Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
• Critical thinking can be seen as having two components: 1) a set of information and belief generating and processing skills, and 2) the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior.
• Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way.   People who think critically consistently attempt to live rationally, reasonably, empathically.

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• Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking
• A critical thinker is able to deduce consequences from what he knows, and he knows how to make use of information to solve problems, and to seek relevant sources of information to inform himself.

• Critical thinking is defined as reasonable, reflective, responsible, and skillful thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do. Critical thinking is analytical thinking.
• A person who thinks critically can ask appropriate questions, gather relevant information, efficiently and creatively sort through this information, reason logically from this information, and come to reliable and trustworthy conclusions about the world that enable one to live and act successfully in it.

• plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward

• All of the following are considered plagiarism:

  • turning in someone else's work as your own
  • copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
  • failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
  • giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
  • changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
  • copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)

• plagiarism is defined as “the deliberate or reckless representation of another’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own without attribution in connection with submission of academic work, whether graded or otherwise.

• In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledg­ing its source.